Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-01-26
must write letter and send it by stages
to its distant place, and wait patiently for

udyS OE WEEKS lOT tll6 duSWcIs
When one goes home on a freezing
on one side while freezing the other, and
reading by the dim light of tallow dip, !
instead of the blaze of gaslight or the
more agreeable light of kerosene. If he
undertakes a journey, instead of getting
into the cars and going where he wishes,
the best he can do is to take stage at
four times the cost and ten times the dis
comfort of the cars. Let these and other
modern improvements be forbidden and
''good old days" be brought back, how
long would it be before an extra session of
the legislature would be demanded to
knock "the good old days'' into splinters,
and to restore the much better modern
days which we now enjoy and for which
we ought to be most devoutly thankful?-
Bridgeport Sentinel.
MURDERERs ON THE was
on duty in the jail for six years, and du-
ring that time met great many criminals
pleasant studs to- Iae scnlafly the :
negroes. They are ali alike. Until de-
cision of the casein the trial court there
is no change in their manners or morals,
but when they are once convicted they
become intensely superstitious and deep
ly religious. It does not matter whether
they get new trial or the case goes to
higher court, or what happens; once con-
victed they are changed. They devote all
their time to study of the Bible, and
stop cursing and using profane or vulgar
language, and If you use it in their pres
ence they will correct you, and say that
you ought not to do it. They are easily /
worked on by priests, and become 80 inn
bued with the doctrine of the mercy and
forgiveness of Christ that they do not
look upon death with fear. In fact, / be-
lieve that by the day of execution they
want to die. They firmly believe that
just as soon as the breath leaves their
bodies they 60 at once to an eternal life,
far happier than the one they are leaving,
and the sooner they die the sooner they
will enjoy the pleasures of heaven. This
is the reason they walk so firmly to the
scafold; and not because they are given
liquor. I'd like to see any man made
80 drunk that he would give up life as
they do, unless he was too drunk to |
Walk.-Coroner's Clerk, in Globe DeD,oc7K.
EQUAL1TY.-That all men have equl
rights is cardinal doctrine in theory
democratic government, but it is possih
to expand the claim to point beyoi
the bound of rights simply, and apply
to the results of the exercise of our ina
enable endowments. Human beings al
not born with equal gifts and power
Wherever there is an upper and middle
there aust be an under. The weak mus
seek the wall and be style from which th |
ambitious strong will vault toward the top,
Nor can those appointed by nature for the
pyramids base serve in any other posi-
tion. To press the walls as little as pos
sible, get all the, pay for service that It
here" is the bound of their possibilities. /
superstructure, and the position is as
truly honorable as any other, though uni
versal mankind have held it to be less de-
sirable. All theories for the help of those
who serve must proceed upon an admis-
sion of equality.-1he Carriage Monthly.
WHAT WOMAN CAN lDo.-As a.wifeI
and mother women can make the fortune
and happiness Of her husband and chill
dren, and if they did nothing else surely
this would be sufficient destiny. By her
thrift, prudence and tact she can secure to
her partner and to herself competency
in old age, no matter how small the begin
ming or how adverse fate may be theirs.
By her cheerfulness she can restore her
husbands spirit shaken by the anxieties
of business. By her tender care she can
often restore him to health if disease hasd
overtasked his powers. BY her counsel
and love she can win him from bad CONF
pany if temptation in an evil hour has led
him astray. By her example, her pre-
cepts and her sex's insight into charac|1
ter she can mould her children, however
adverse their dispositions, into noble men
and women. And by leading in all things
a true and beautiful life, she can refine,
elevate and spiritualize all who come with
in reach; so that, with others of her sex
emulating and assisting her, she can DO
statesmen or reformers that legislated.
Two HUNDRED YEARS AGO OR MORE.
Two hundred years and more ago beds in
England were bags filed with straw or
leaves, but not upholstered or squared with
modern neatness. The bag could be OPEN
were few bedrooms in the house of an
cient England. The master and mistress
of the Anglo Saxon house had chamber A
or shed built against the wall that en-
closed the mansion and its dependencies
their daughters had the same. Young
men and guests slept in the great hall,
which was the only noticeable room In
the house, on tables or benches. Wooleh
coverlids were provided for warmth (; poles
or hooks on which they could hang their
clothes projected from the wall; perches
were provided for their hawks. Attend
ants and servants slept on the floor.
The POLAND OF AFRICA.-ZuIuland
seems to be the Poland of Africa. First
Great Britain cut off a big slice of Western
Zululand, called it the Reserve and drove \
the Independent Zulus out of it because
Natal did not like them as neighbors.
Then the Transvaal Beers viewed what j
was left from their mountain tops, pro-
nounced it beautiful location for new 4
republic and invented a pretext for mey- 1
ing in. They were actually trying to APP
propriate five-sixths of the country, when |
Great Britain stepped in as a mutual
friend, cut the land in two in the middle
and assigned the east half to the Zulus
and the west to the Beers, reserving Q
generous strip along the entire coast for
herself. So the warriors of Cetywayo are
being crowded into corner Of their herit- /
age, while white men parcel out the biggest i
and best part of it.-B0stOe Transcript.
CHEERFUL PERsoNs.-GQd bless the
cheerful person-man, woman or child,
old or young, illiterate or educated, hand
some or homely. Over and above every
social trait stands cheerfulness. What the
sun is to nature, what God is to the stricken
heart which knows how to lean upon him.
are cheerful persons in the house, by the
wayside. They 20 unobstrusively, un-
consciously, about their silent mission,
Frightening up society around them with
the HAPPINESS beaming from their faces.